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By Gabriella Arrigoni Collection: TV Party Watch more on Network Awesome Not always, actually quite seldom, is the distinction between art and absurdity a relevant one. And it certainly doesn't matter when in a TV show you combine live music, in-studio party, fancy dress, videotapes, punk, disco, anarchism, new wave, visual arts, rap, interviews, phone-in sessions, shaky camera angles, crude advertising and live drug taking. All this [...]

Black Flag - TV Party I got a long-weekend before me, lots of PVR'd shows to see, no brew though. Maybe I'll go to the liquor store in a bit to pick some up. I know this track is about how TV breeds laziness, but it's been an extra physical week for me, (At the PTJ, I moved over 10,000 pounds of stuff in four days, the math on what I moved was calculated!) so I want my damn down time!!! Party! Sleep in and rock on! Peace. http://sstsuperstore.com/

Watch the first episode of Dazed TV Party, a "a new and exciting online music and pop culture show that brings to life the innovative and anarchic editorial spirit that has made Dazed & Confused one of the trendsetting magazine brands of the last 20 years." It features interviews and exclusive performances from Florence Welch (covering Marvin Gaye's classic I Heard It Through The Grapevine ), Jake Chapman, Alice Dellal, Dominic Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Factory Floor, Dave I.D, Marques Toliver and Theo Adams.

'One day in '78 I ran into Coca Crystal , a woman I knew from High Times who hosted a public access cable show called "If I Can't Dance You Can Keep Your Revolution" (after an Emma Goldman quote.) Coca's show featured Yipees and bohemian characters, like Tuli Kupferberg of the Fugs. They smoked pot on air and talked about anarchy. Coca asked me to come on her show and I said sure. Coca's show was fun but I didn't think anything about it until the next day. I was on the subway and strangers came up [...]

Last night was my first real elimination round of American Idol. Sure, they've been thinning the ranks for weeks, but that was a rapid-fire bloodletting that sent home four bad singers a week. Th... Continue reading "Idol Beat: Later, Lacey" >

This is clearly the point in American Idol where the producers start spending a little more money. Now that we're down to the top 12 singers, we get a bigger stage and more taped pieces, and eve... Continue reading "Idol Beat: You Can't Always Get What You Want" >

Last night's American Idol, in which the top eight guys performed, felt a lot like the girls' episode from Tuesday in the way it clearly defined who should stay and who should go, with one singe... Continue reading "Idol Beat: Big Mike the Guy To Beat?" >

The happiest moment of my Tuesday was when I realized that American Idol was only an hour that night, not two. This is already the third week in a row with three eps over three nights, and this ... Continue reading "Idol Beat: Bowersox the Girl to Beat?" >

Didn't we just leave this party? Last night's American Idol is when I realized just how much this show relies on a strict template for every episode at every stage of the competition. Twelve guy... Continue reading "Idol Beat: Carol Brady Wants Her Mullet Back" >

"Welcome back to Hell Week," Ryan Seacrest intoned at the top of last night's American Idol. It's pretty ballsy for a singing competition show to compare itself to SEAL training, since I'm prett... Continue reading "Idol Beat: Hell Hollywood Week Continues" >

Here we are in Hollywood, kids! Yes, the dingy, tourist-ridden section of Los Angeles that's become a handy way to package and sell the myth of stardom to the unsuspecting. Hollywood is so quintes... Continue reading "Idol Beat: The Hollywood Shuffle Begins..." >

Last night's American Idol was a clip show, plain and simple. Nothing else going on at all. Granted, every cattle-call audition episode can feel like a clip show, with an endless run of short, for... Continue reading "Idol Beat: The "Best of the Rest," Or So Fox Says" >

Honestly, I found it hard to concentrate on American Idol knowing I was just an hour away from the return of Lost. Admittedly, sometimes it's hard to concentrate on the show under ordinary circums... Continue reading "Idol Beat: How Low Can the Mile High City Go?" >

Even if you're not excited by what could perhaps be the highest-scoring, most exciting Super Bowl in years - or at least amused by all the bickering between thin-skinned Colts and Saints fans - T... Continue reading "The Strangest, and Creepiest, Way to Promote a Super Bowl Halftime Show We've Ever Seen" >

The latest round of American Idol auditions took place in Los Angeles, or more accurately, Pasadena, where 11,000 people showed up last June to try and secure a spot in the September callback. As... Continue reading "Idol Beat: L.A. Is No Lady" >

Between fighting crime, reducing global warming, mending our socks and, you know, everything else Rocks Off does when we're away from the office, we caught a good bit of Friday evening's "Hope fo... Continue reading "Most Downloaded "Hope For Haiti" Texan? Although She Killed, Not Beyonce" >

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​Last night's American Idol was the fourth audition episode of Season 9 (and if you think we're almost done with the cattle-call phase, you are in for a broken heart). I cannot stress enough the u... Continue reading "Idol Beat: Orlando Is Far from the Magic Kingdom" >

​If you've been keeping up with the business going on between Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno, odds are you've already picked a side. Every team needs its fight songs, and although Team Leno looks a lo... Continue reading "King Cry Baby: A Team Leno Playlist" >

So here we are with our pants on the ground, in the second week of American Idol, and it'll be another month before auditions end. At first I was pleasantly surprised to find that last night's ep... Continue reading "Idol Beat: A Lot of Hot Air In the Windy City" >

Going into the second audition episode of American Idol, I worried that it might not be any different from the first one. And while the bottom line is that I was right on a technical level -- it ... Continue reading "Idol Beat: Tryouts Burn Atlanta All Over Again" >